Short Story Competition 2016 | An interview with Erica Wagner
With just over a month until our Short Story Competition 2016 closes, we spoke to one of the judges, Erica Wagner, and…
Short Story Competition 2016 | An interview with Max Porter
With just over a month until our Short Story Competition 2016 closes, we spoke to judge Max Porter and found out about…
Short Story Competition 2016 | An interview with Angus Cargill
With just over a month until our Short Story Competition 2016 closes, we caught up with judge Angus Cargill and found…
Kiss-Kiss-Kissuni by Frances Park
Memories. Some lie dormant for decades then suddenly spring awake, fresh as yesterday. I like to think the writer in…
An interview with Southbank Centre Literature Festival’s Ted Hodgkinson
This October, Southbank Centre will host its 10th Literature Festival, ‘Living in Future Times’. Beginning with a reading of H. G.…
Archive | A Mere Interlude by Thomas Hardy
From The London Magazine archive, read this short by Thomas Hardy from May 1903. The story was accompanied by illustrations…
Dead Women Poets Society
‘#JoinTheSeance!’ is Helen Bowell’s excited exhortation to a low-lit room of poetry enthusiasts, surrounded by electric candles in the basement of…
Say Something Back by Denise Riley
In their most cliched form, attempts to describe the experience of bereavement tend to settle into a series of unanswerable…
Short Story Competition 2016
This competition is now closed. Thanks to all who entered. The longlist, shortlist and winners will be announced over the next…
An interview with Bernard O’Donoghue
Bernard O’Donoghue was born in 1945 in Cullen, Co Cork. His latest collection, The Seasons of Cullen Church, returns with…
An interview with Camille Ralphs
Hurst Street Press publisher Shoshana Kessler speaks to poet Camille Ralphs about her recent poetry publication Malkin. SK: I recently…
A Response: Nicholas Royle, the Quaint and Sherbet Wit by Steven O’Brien
I am incredibly tickled to feature so prominently in Nicholas Royle’s introductory essay for Salt’s Best British Stories 2016. I…
The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2016 | Winners
Thank you so much to everyone who entered The London Magazine‘s Poetry Prize 2016. The standard of entries was extremely…
I Don’t Live in a Mountainous Country by Talin Tahajian
We look up, & beyond the maple trees & the brick steeples with weathervane roosters, clouds billow as sleeping monsters.…
The Blind Roadmaker by Ian Duhig
In his latest eclectic collection of poems, Ian Duhig sings (and dances) for those marginalised in poetry and forgotten by…
New Voices from the Tower Hamlets Schools
SLAMbassadors Showcase, 14th July 2016 Close your eyes, and try to remember the last time a thirteen-year-old implored you to…
An interview with Bernard O’Donoghue
Bernard O’Donoghue was born in 1945 in Cullen, Co Cork. His latest collection, The Seasons of Cullen Church, returns with…
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
‘The whole challenge of poetry’, Alice Oswald once wrote, ‘is to keep language open, so that what we don’t yet…
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
‘The whole challenge of poetry’, Alice Oswald once wrote, ‘is to keep language open, so that what we don’t yet…
Faith Healer at Donmar Warehouse
Lyndsey Turner’s revival of Brian Friel’s 1979 play uses the wisdom of age to give this oft dubbed “modern masterpiece”…
Archive | Hockney in L.A. by Robert Wennersten
Robert Wennersten Hockney in L.A. To celebrate the opening of David Hockney’s exhibition 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life at the Royal…
Through by David Herd
David Herd begins his new collection Through with the line: ——It is possible to be precise. The wording– “it is…
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
The latest novelistic offering in Hogarth Shakespeare’s project to refashion the bard’s tales into contemporary retellings, Vinegar Girl compellingly revitalises…
An interview with Ian McMillian
In this interview with Ian McMillan, The London Magazine’s Editor, Steven O’Brien, and Production Manager, Rachel Chanter, discuss Ian McMillan’s…
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